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his land journey, id charge of the senior lieu- 

 tenant. 



Lieutenant Francis Harding, after paying off 

 the Griper, served three years as lieutenant of the 

 Espoir, then in the Hecla, and was made Com- 

 mander in 1830 ; he served in that rank in several 

 ships till the year 1839, and was promoted to the 

 rank of Captain in the general promotion of 1841. 



Lieutenant Peter Manico was made in 1814, 

 served in the present voyage, and is still on the list 

 of lieutenants. 



John Tom was promoted to the rank of lieutenant 

 in 1826, where he still remains. 



The Griper was considered a very useful vessel of 

 her class ; her strength was proved between the ice 

 and the shore of Melville Island, and Captain 

 Clavering had but arrived in England in her, at 

 the end of the preceding year, from a voyage to 

 Spitzbergen and Greenland. She was now, for 

 her present voyage, examined and well strength- 

 ened ; but on being stored, and amply provisioned, 

 was found to be too deeply laden to cross the 

 Atlantic alone, and therefore His Majesty's survey- 

 ing vessel the Snap, commanded by Lieutenant 

 Bullock, was ordered to receive a portion of them, 

 and to accompany the Griper until she reached the 

 ice, or arrived off Cape Chidley. 



They sailed from Yarmouth Roads on the 19th 

 June, and arrived at Stromness on the 30th. " On 

 the 3rd July," Captain Lyon says, " we hoisted in 



